Pittsville, WI
Pittsville, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pittsville's 557 buildings earn a 36th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pittsville at the 36th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 51.5% of Pittsville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 45.8% Indirect share and far above its 2.7% Minimal share — a profile where 287 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Pittsville ranks
Pittsville's 84th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 36th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pittsville ranks 20,315 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,466 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 133 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Pittsville's moderate wildfire rating (36th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Pittsville
Because Direct exposure dominates in Pittsville (51.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pittsville's 20,315-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pittsville, see the exposure-zones guide.